The Shield

Previously on The Shield...

Got 12 dead mexicans slaughtered

in their house in San Marcos.

But no arrests.

I'll make some calls.

A name keeps popping up in my interviews. Hernan.

Hernan is undercover in the salvadoran organization.

Stop trying to contact him.

Hey, Moses! I thought we told you

to stay away from between her pussy.

You're gonna stop seeing that asshole.

I know.

So this guy targets runaways.

While telling them to go home.

There's another girl. Came in 6 months ago.

We didn't believe her.

Congratulations on getting another girl ass raped.

Anything you can tell us... Where he held you?

It was a girl's room.

Posters on the wall

were all white boys in these gay poses.

This Kevin Hiatt is ours starting next week.

You're not adding anybody to my team

that I don't have approval of.

He's not your addition. He's your replacement.

Hiatt's decided to add another member to the Strike Team.

I suggested you. All right.

Shane?

Lem, I'm sorry!

But I had to, right?

We're gonna find out who did this.

And we're gonna kill him.

It's Guardo.

He stepped on his protection plate twice.

You know, maybe he didn't do it, man!

If it wasn't Guardo, who was it?!

Well, let's get him, man!

Found him swirling in a gutter.

Conscious?

In and out.

Contusions, possible fractures.

Vitals are stable.

Put him in curtain two.

All right.

Call the resident to check for internal bleeding.

Better tell him to hurry.

Thought you said he was stable.

He is, but we found this.

He's a cop.

Shane?

Corrine, what the hell happened?

He was beaten pretty badly and doesn't remember how.

Where? When?

They found him a few blocks from here.

Oh, man.

No shit from you guys.

Already took one pounding today.

What happened?

I was walking to my truck, next thing I know

I'm coming to in a meat wagon.

You didn't see anyone?

Left my wallet.

Badge, gun.

Think it might've been the salvadorans?

Some lame ass attempt at one of us?

Payback for Guardo?

We wouldn't be having this conversation.

This was just a good old-fashioned shit-kicking.

It was probably some asshole we sent up, fresh out.

I'll run down recent releases, check in with the P.O.'s.

Tell me something first...

Who's this guy?

New girlfriend likes baby smooth skin between her thighs.

You should have her call me.

Oh, my god.

What happened?

What the doctors say?

The X-rays are all good.

I'll get working on who did this.

Baby, what happened to you?

Synchro : Artusamak

Haunts

How's Shane doing?

Hurting for certain.

Not especially pleasing to the eye at the moment.

I'm going to post a protective detail

outside his room until we know more.

What do you know about the San Marcos house murders?

I heard about them. Grisly stuff.

Yeah. Robbery homicide's running with it.

We got the hand-off. Aceveda's all over this.

10 days ago my detective found 12 bodies, hacked to pieces.

Well, 11 bodies, one arm.

Machete's the weapon of choice for the salvadorans.

Which supports the tip that Aceveda's cronies gave us,

that the killers were el salvadorians,

the victims were all mexican illegals.

3 women, 9 men.

I.d.'s?

All but the arm.

Mexican government had them in their system.

If you can call that a system.

The men were all from the same prison.

Released 2 days before the bodies were found.

It's all in the there.

This becomes the Strike Team's top priority now.

Solving it quickly is the difference

between keeping the barn open or closing it for good.

They're shutting this place down?

Not if you put a dozen murders in the win column.

Make our closure rate too good-looking to lose us.

Get with Dutch. He found the bodies.

Uh, the barn going out of business stays between us.

Last thing Farmington needs is cops who feel like lame ducks.

Alright. Let's have a look at it.

Give me a sec?

So far, no one on the street's bragging

about giving Shane a beat down.

All right. Well, have the units keep their eyes and ears open.

What, man?

Guardo's girlfriend...

She could've figured out we used her

to get him, told his people...

Maybe the salvadorans are after us.

I don't think so, man.

Shane got hit with a fist, not a machete or a grenade.

Let's go.

RHD's pretty thorough.

They give us a starting place with the victims?

Like she said.

Released from a prison in Sinaloa.

Connections to the same mexican cartel.

All with guest worker visas.

Let me see that.

Prisoners don't get work visas.

Especially not real ones.

A- plus forgeries then.

Where do you want me to start, jefe?

It's either give you a hand

or be out on the street, right?

I've still got some drag at I.N.S.

so I'll get them to run a quick I.D. on the arm.

But you know these streets better than anyone.

Where do you want to start?

With the visas.

You know anyone that does that quality of work?

I might know a guy.

By the way, welcome to the team.

Won't let you down.

He's the boss now. Don't let him down.

Let's go.

Graciela sanchez is getting out of mission cross today.

How are we doing iding her rapist?

Billings is pounding the pavement with the sketch Princess gave us.

The feds are running the profile I came up with

through their database for potential unsubs.

Contact the local y's, teen shelters...

I did it, I did it. No one's gotten back to me yet.

Stay on top of them.

Our guy's M.O.'s escalating.

Wouldn't surprise me

if he's already got a fresh victim.

Oh, my god.

What are you doing?

Details of the crime scene,

create a written report for the files on this case.

Who wants what and why

and how slaughtering all those people in this room

helped achieve that goal.

That's all you need to be writing down, man.

Hey, hey. I don't want to be here.

Too bad.

12 people.

3 of them women.

Cut to pieces in this place 10 days ago.

I read about it in the paper.

I didn't need to see it.

They were carrying these.

Only one guy I know good enough to produce

this kind of work and that's you.

I changed careers.

If not you, then who?

I couldn't say.

Paper men, we have a code.

You got a code.

You the blood on these walls? Huh?

You see it?

You have no idea the pressure to point

the finger at someone for this.

No matter how bogus that I.D.

Look again.

I-I can tell you these were done in mexico, not here.

Hiatt: How can you be so sure?

The font. T-they use an older version.

It's almost the same, but not quite.

Mexicans and the sals, troubled times.

Latinos can't even trust each other these days.

Wait outside.

Brown and Brown, it's a place to start.

Body count like this, the aztecs and mayans